Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malays have built some walls of their own. By Malayan law. only one-quarter of the government jobs can go to non-Malays, while Malays get special concessions in the granting of scholarships and licenses for new businesses. Rigid citizenship requirements have been set up for the Chinese (Malays are automatically citizens), and the Borneo territories plan immigration restrictions to keep Chinese businessmen out. "Special privileges are like a golf handicap." rationalizes Malaya's Chinese Finance Minister Tan Siew Sin. "They are not to hold the Chinese down, but to help the Malays along...
...Congress moved toward bestowing honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill, someone decided that it was time to repatriate Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Though pardoned under a post-Civil War proclamation by President Andrew Johnson, Lee was, in effect, a second-class citizen, excluded by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1868) from holding any public office, civil or military. Now Freshman Representative James H. Quillen, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced a House bill posthumously restoring full rights to the Southern hero in recognition of his "courage and integrity...
...sales last year of $20.6 million. Rosenthal proudly claims that it is the world's largest china "publisher." Founded in 1879, the company was taken away from Philipp Rosenthal in 1938 when the Nazis "Aryanized" German industry. His son Philip, then a student at Oxford, renounced his German citizenship. When war came, he joined the Foreign Legion, ultimately linked up with British intelligence and became a British subject. After the war, young Rosenthal, now 46, returned to the company's headquarters in the Bavarian village of Selb, found that one of the men who had forced...
...little effect. Now the Government must realize more than that discrimination in America is morally intolerable. It must also realize that if integration is not enforced by the President and officers of the law, it will be fought for by men who have waited 300 years to attain full citizenship. The fight will be carried on with violence as well as words. And civil violence is in nobody's best interest...
Another teacher asserted that the same attitude characterizes the administration's relations with the faculty. Mount Holyoke, he said, puts an exceedingly great stress on "good academic citizenship," and imposes a burden of trivial rules on the faculty...